Shaun and Mitch Marsh to the rescue for the Perth Scorchers

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Perth Scorchers are relying on the Marsh brothers to bring their Big Bash League season back from the brink, as they hope to welcome back a trio of one-day international squad members for Thursday’s crunch clash with Sydney Thunder at Optus Stadium.

Shaun and Mitch Marsh will bolster the Scorchers’ top six for the remainder of the tournament, while they are sweating on strike bowler Jason Behrendorff’s fitness to take on the Thunder after he was rested from Friday’s third one-dayer against India with back soreness.

Fellow paceman Jhye Richardson will not be available after being called into Australia’s Test squad to face Sri Lanka.

Shaun Marsh has not played for the Scorchers this season, while Mitch (3 and 11) is yet to fire with the bat in his two outings.

The additional firepower is much needed after Perth emerged with more injury worries following Friday night’s gripping loss to Hobart Hurricanes at Optus Stadium.

Needing 16 runs to win off the final over, Hobart all-rounder James Faulkner hit AJ Tye for 6, 4 and 6 from the first three balls to end the match in front of 36,612 fans.

Perth have a 3-6 record from nine games and will likely need to win at least four of their remaining five matches to keep alive their streak of never missing the BBL finals.

Wicketkeeper-batsman Sam Whiteman, who starred with an enterprising 68 off 44 balls to help the Scorchers post a competitive 9-177, suffered a quad injury while running between wickets and did not take his place in the field.

Whiteman and England all-rounder David Willey (shoulder) are in doubt for Thursday, while spinner Ashton Agar has already been ruled out for the rest of the tournament after breaking a finger at training this week. Scorchers coach Adam Voges refused to give up on the campaign.

“We’ll get our Aussie representatives back. In terms of fit, available players we don’t have many so we’ll welcome them back,” Voges said.

“But look, if we keep having a crack and we keep playing to the standard that we did tonight, I still believe we’re a dangerous chance in this competition.”

Voges said Tye had missed his length after attempting to bowl yorkers in the final over and backed him to hit back.

Camera IconThe Scorchers will back Tye in.Picture: Getty Images

“AJ is the sort of bloke who I don’t think will get too down about that,” he said. “He knows he hasn’t executed the way he wanted to, but I’d give him the ball to bowl the 20th over next game as well and know that he’ll probably do the job.”

Voges said the move to leave Behrendorff out of the national team was precautionary.

“We’ve monitored him fairly closely this year with his back issues,” he said.

“Our physios are in contact with the Cricket Australia physios, so they’re confident that it’s only very minor and so hopefully we’ll see him out here against the Thunder.”